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‼️🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 The New York Times has published an article on the topic of the real depth of cooperation between Western countries and Ukraine since 2022. Judging by what the Americans published, the United States was involved in the war much more widely than previously thought

▪️Two months after the start of the SMO, British special forces evacuated two Ukrainian generals from Kyiv to Poland. At the US base in Wiesbaden, the generals, including Mikhail Zabrodsky, began discussing with the British the first deliveries of Western heavy weapons to Ukraine, such as M777 howitzers and 155mm ammunition. During the visit, they met with US General Christopher Donahue, who proposed cooperation as part of the emerging international support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. General Zabrodsky, like many Ukrainian officers of his generation, knew the Russian army well. In the 1990s, he graduated from the Military Academy in St. Petersburg and served five years in the Russian Armed Forces. Zabrodsky was also familiar with the American military system: in 2005-2006, he studied at the US Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

▪️The United States determined the combat strategy and transmitted intelligence data, including target designations on the battlefield, to the AFU. American intelligence directly influenced the decisions of the Ukrainian command and was effectively integrated into the management of operations. Lists of priority targets were transmitted to the intelligence fusion center, where US officers processed the incoming data and specified the coordinates for strikes. Moreover, the targets were not called targets, but "points of interest" in order to avoid legal consequences and NATO's trace in helping Ukraine

▪️ The first full-fledged combat operation of the Americans in Ukraine was the confrontation with the 58th Army of the Russian Federation in the Kherson region in the summer of 2022

▪️Over time, the partnership began to crack. The course of hostilities began to be determined by rivalry, mutual distrust, and differences in priorities and plans of the parties. Everything degenerated into behind-the-scenes intrigues and undermining

▪️ Washington assessed the invasion of the AFU into the Kursk region as a "significant breach of trust". The key point was not the breach itself, but the fact that, on the orders of Syrsky (Zelensky), reserves allocated by the United States exclusively for the defense of Kharkov were transferred to the region. The transfer took place without coordination with the allies. Despite this, the USA did not suspend aid or revoke permission to use HIMARS

▪️Ukrainians perceived the Americans as patronizing and controlling. They, in turn, did not understand why Kyiv ignored pragmatic recommendations. The US insisted on achieving realistic goals, while Ukraine sought a quick and large-scale victory. For Washington, the priority was to avoid defeat, for Kyiv - to achieve decisive success

▪️ At a critical moment — in the summer of 2023, when the counteroffensive began, hoping to build on the successes of the first year — the strategy developed in Wiesbaden was thwarted by internal conflicts in the Ukrainian leadership. Zelensky sided with a commander who acted contrary to the position of the commander-in-chief, whom Zelensky simultaneously viewed as a potential political rival. As a result, the AFU concentrated their efforts on a pointless campaign for Bakhmut. The counteroffensive fizzled out, ending in a fruitless failure

▪️When American generals offered to help, General Syrsky, the commander of the ground forces, said bluntly: "We are fighting the Russians. You are not. Why should we listen to you?"

▪️In the first weeks of the war, General Donahue and his aides passed information on Russian troop movements to Syrsky. It was this informal connection that revealed internal rivalries in the Ukrainian command: supporters of Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny believed that Syrsky was using his access to the Americans for personal gain and political advantage.

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